. an islamic leader making a controversial appearance on the uc berkeley campus, what he says that has some students angry. and brave actions in the hayward strip mall. what one man did to save his elderly mother's life. and young, undocumented immigrants, why near making a trip across the country. complete bay area news

coverage starts right now. i'm eric rasmussen. and hello again everybody, i'm heather holmes. controversy today on the campus where the islamic leader, louis farrakhan, had a speech. others protested the minister and his message. >> what are you afraid of? what is it that i might say to your students or your slaves. >> reporter: minister louis farrakhan opened the black conference at uc berkeley today, bringing others together. >> what i got out of it, how can he can build the black community back up. >> reporter: the -78year-old urged the 600 students to depend on themselves for jobs, and learn more about black history. he also pushed a controversial

book that alleges jews dominated the slave trade. >> and that they controlled the government, you need to be their friend, to me it was so hateful, horrible. >> this is not hate. this is actual facts. >> reporter: outside wheeler hall, a few students passed out these petitions, expressing their anger with the minister's conference here at southern cal. >> i think that students have every right to talk. >> reporter: the minister condemned the opposition and even discouraged dialogue between jews and blacks. >> reporter: but memberses of the community say the message was inspiring. >> we're looking at the statements, how to make the black community powerful, not all the other controversial things he may have said in the past. >> reporter: at berkeley,

lorraine blanco, chivitas. and a 92-year-old woman in critical condition, following one of two terrible fires in the hayward strip mall. in the 300 block of a street, the woman's 60-year-old son got home from work at 3:45 this morning, to find the house in flames. both suffered serious burns, treated at the st. francis burn center in san francisco. then just two hours later, the hayward strip mall had another major fire on their hands, look at this, this fire broke out at a warehouse on jackson street, we first brought you these pictures, the flames and smoke going from the building, the fire crews fought to keep it from reaching the strip mall. a donut shop employee said the customer saw the smoke, and warned her to get out. >> the customer saved my life, yeah. i am so proud for them. he helped me out. >> reporter: fire officials say the business in that mall had

minor damage and could reopen tomorrow. the cause of each of those fires is under investigation. and san jose police arrested two teens suspected in a series of armed robberies last night, it ended just after midnight, when the pair crashed into a patrol car, injuring an officer. 18-year-old spana is in the santa clara county jail, police say his 13 yield helper helped him get away, they are both in jail, both are charged with assault with a deadly weapon on the officer. investigators say the two were responsible for five armed robberies in san jose. and more fallout on the berkeley police chief, regarding the beating of a man last night, the police chief, meehan, apologized for sending a sergeant to the home of reporter doug oakley after midnight, the chief said he

wanted changes to the story. oakley said he made changes, but not all the ones the chief requested. the first amendment advocates say that could be seen as intimidation. and turns out today was not last call for a popular watering hole. the gold dust lounge is still in business. the eviction order didn't happen here. there was a lot of attention focusing on the fate of the bar. the eviction appears to be blocked by a lawsuit at this point. >> the lawyer said everybody still has their jobs, and we're celebrating that we're still here. the landlord accuses the bar owners of misleading the public about the real situation and says the gold dust owners knew their lease had a 90-day cancellation clause. >> rally today, where they're trying to keep open. the managers say they're shutting down april 15th, because the lease is set to

expire. the rally organizers say the 51- year-old bowling alley provides jobs and recreation for thousands of people and hope the landlord will renew the lease. and east bay homeowners hoping to avoid foreclosure got the word from experts today. they sponsored a community event where there was advice to homeowners. they presented a budget that shows your cash flow, and to keep asking for help. >> keep trying, you know if you don't play, you can't win. you have to be strong, push forward if you want to keep your house. >> besides federal loan modifications, california's keep your home program may also provide some relief to strapped homeowners, the prices have yet to climb. and a group of undocumented immigrants kicking off in san francisco, hoping to get legal status for those who attend college or join the military. ktvu's ken savage has more. >> reporter: well, this group

is planning to march or walk from san francisco obviously the way to washington, d.c. fighting for the dream act, they hope it will become a key incident this session. they are rallying with the group here, this is one of many stops they will make along the way. and earlier today we were there as they began this very personal journey. >> dreamers, united, we'll never be divided. >> reporter: describing themselves as undocumented and unafraid, they gathered on the north end of the golden gate bridge today, to begin a 3000- mile walk to the nation's capitol. one of them is 23-year-old lucas silva, born in brazil, and brought here by the age of one. >> brazil is foreign to me, i don't know the customs, the culture, this is what i'm used to. this is my home. i want an opportunity to work and contribute. >> reporter: the young illegal

immigrants who go to college or join the military hope to have a chance at legal status. they want to discuss it. >> we want to discuss the issues, put them out in the open so that we can in the end, hopefully turn their support in favor of us. >> reporter: and one of the people making this cross country trek is actually a legal citizen. her motivation to march? family, randy gutierrez is marching for her older brother, a college student living here illegally. >> i am fighting for them because i believe that they deserve a future. >> reporter: in 2010, congress failed to pass the dream act. but this group is hoping lawmakers will give it another chance. they plan to wind up their walk in washington, d.c. in october. live tonight, berkeley, alex savage, ktvu channel 2 action news. and turning now to election 2012. and rick santorum racking up yet another victory, winning

the presidential caucuses in kansas. the former pennsylvania senator took 51% of the vote, with mitt romney keeping 21%, and ron paul took 13%, the win means that santorum has now picked up 33 of the 40 kansas delegates. but mitt romney still leads the delegate race with 453 of the over one one hundred needed for the numbers. santorum has over 217. both he and ron paul were the only candidates to campaign in kansas. the texas congressman says he is not planning to get out of this race any time soon. >> i never think it is do or die, everybody is still in the race, there is no declared winner. so we'll all do what we're doing, making the most out of the chance to get more delegates. >> reporter: he sent the morning in overland kansas and has not won any caucuses so

far. and newt gingrich is focusing on alabama and mississippi. he won georgia on super tuesday and wants to stay alive with two more wins in southern states. >> if we can win alabama and mississippi tuesday night, we'll re-set the campaign for i guess the ninth or 10th time, sometime on wednesday. this has been the wildest roller coaster, i tell people it is like riding space mountain at disney world. >> newt gingrich will chris cross the state to make the most out of the turnout. and mitt romney had no appearances today but spent time in alabama and mississippi, hoping to score his first win in the south. >> the president has not succeeded. this president has failed. and that is the reason we'll get rid of him in 2012. >> the former massachusetts governor won caucuses in the pacific island of guam and the northern marianna islands. we continue on ktvu with the election coverage, just lock for the politics page.

and president obama predicting a clean energy future for the u.s., and lower gas prices. >> every year our cars and trucks can go further and use less fuel. and pretty soon you will be able to fill up every two weeks, instead of every week. something that over time will save the typical family more than $8000 at the pump. >> in his weekly internet address, mr. obama pushed for american-made energy such as solar, rather than more drilling for oil. he also called on congress to end the billions in subsidies to oil companies. and protesters looking at the anniversary that prompted a diet in san francisco today. plus, dozens of homes in the east bay still without power tonight. >> put your hands in the sky, deep breath. >> and going one-on-one with dr. oz, the special tips he had to stay healthy in mind, body and spirit. and some big changes in our weather pattern, coming up to areas that have the highest

chance of picking up showers for sunday, and the storms, when they're expected to move in, with the local forecast

. dozens of protesters staged a die-in at the united nations plaza in san francisco this morning, demanding an end to the rule of the chinese tibet, today is the anniversary of the uprising, today, they say that they execute anybody who tries to protest the chinese rule. the day long rally ends today at the square. and japan remembering the massive triple disaster that was triggered a year ago

tomorrow. an unimaginable 9.0 earthquake, an overwhelming tsunami, and flooding that overwhelmed the area along the coast of japan, and fear throughout the world. 19,000 people died. and 10s of thousands lost their homes. japan has been working hard to re-build. but rescue crews say there are more tough choices to make. >> there is a lot of conflict between some of the local people who want the places built back as they were. the local authority who want to merge some of the smaller hamlets which were pretty much totally wiped off the map. >> the tsunami crossed the pacific, and later reached us here in santa cruz, damaging the harbor. in one of many events tomorrow recalling the disaster, san francisco's japantown will host the event tomorrow. and power still out to some homes after an overnight

accident that snapped the power pole. the accident happened at jupiter street, the driver taken to the medical center. about 600 customers had power restored this morning. and the utility company hopes to have the lights back on to the remaining 30 customers by 9:00 tonight. and oakland police saying a man is in custody linked to an illegal street race early this morning. officers recovered a badly damaged car there at the scene near third street. oakland police followed another vehicle, suspected of taking part in that race. the chp picked up the chase, and later arrested one suspect in castro valley. and san mateo police looking at an investigation that led to a huge drug bust. the officials provided these pictures of more than 500 marijuana plants in a home near west hillsdale boulevard. 49-year-old linn tang was arrested on suspicion of

growing marijuana illegally. and a very famous television doctor paying a visit to the bay area today. ktvu has more on the secrets dr. oz shared, regarding a healthy life-style. [cheering and applause] >> reporter: dr. oz is in the studio three days a week, filming his popular tv show, but he is also still a practicing heart surgeon. he says the two professions work together. >> this balances my life. a lot of people look at a patient eye to eye, saying i'm here for you, we'll do it together. what i try to do on the show is bottle that same passion and emotion and caring. >> reporter: dr. oz spoke at the lions club mind, body and spirit event today. he said that 30% of our life is based on our genes. the rest? >> 70% of outside long you live, how well you feel is based on your life-style. >> reporter: so on a sunny afternoon, the doctor wanted to get outside, asking to do the

interview there. he showed us something he does every single morning. >> put your hands in the sky, deep breath, push your stomach out, it pulls the lungs out. deep breath, instead of collapsing down like this, reach forward and grab the air, really stretch forward, come down to your toes. >> reporter: dr. oz is a big advocate of healthy eating. >> lots of leafy greens. >> reporter: he said trying to get the kids to drink less soda? >> you take 50%, they can't even tell it is cut. >> reporter: it is all part of his message of health. >> the most determination for how long we live is our heart. >> reporter: and keeping it healthy in a physical, emotional and spiritual sense, in redwood city ktvu. and rangers at yosemite national park today opening a stretch of the park closed since january. the section of highway is called big oak flat road,

easing traffic in and around the park. rock slides severely damaged the road back in january. mild weather allowed crews to finish work on the road a month ahead of schedule. just a reminder that daylight savings time kicks in tomorrow. so we spring forward at 2:00, losing an hour of sleep. so don't forget to set your clocks ahead an hour tonight, everyone. and fire officials say it is a very good time to check the battery news the smoke detectors. i always hate losing that hour of sleep. nice to have the daylight. it is a trade off, the weather, nice out there, cooler, right mark? >> yes, that is right, the first change over several of the next few days, kicking into the forecast, more cloud cover, in fact already on the increase, and those clouds will continue to pay us a visit as we head into sunday. right now the latest on live storm tracker two, the low to mid-level clouds in the pacific. a stronger breeze out there, take a look at the bouys offshore. you can see winds out of the northwest, out to 20 miles per hour. and a live look ought there

right now. in fact you can see the cloud deck pushing back into the bay. so with that, we cool off today, and the cooler weather continues into sunday, tonight, clouds, fog, drizzle, the light showers earlier. probably in the form of drizzle about two hours ago, a chance of showers as we head into sunday, and this is a significant change, more storms lighting up offshore, we have significant rain to talk about for the upcoming week. overnight lows tomorrow morning, a chance of showers, fairly likely especially up in the north bay, the readings back up, back down to the 40s, santa rosa, 42, san jose, 47 degrees, and sunday, we have that shower chances, especially up in the north bay, a chance he will where, not expecting a lot south of the golden gate bridge. and more storms develop, in fact the storm series setting up for the upcoming week. increasing rain on tuesday, especially for the north bay, and now the graph is spreading

south. tuesday night, wednesday, thursday, beyond that, and friday, multiple rain storms pushing into the weekend. this will be a storm producer in the sierra, for monday, tuesday, snowfall in the order of one to two feet, but we could have that snow turn to rain later in the week with the storms warming up. here we go with the updated forecast model, showing you showers for tomorrow morning, and not a lot of action for tomorrow afternoon. the highest shower chances first thing tomorrow morning, we'll hold down to the chance of showers into monday afternoon. temperatures for tomorrow, everybody cools off, only in the 50s, to right at 60 degrees, morgan hill, 61, and look ahead, your five-day forecast, the weekend always in view. kind of just getting set up here for the storms over the next couple of days. chance of showers, monday, rain tuesday, gradually spraying to the south, moderate to heavy rain, wednesday's thursday, and heather and eric, beyond that point, possible more

significant storms, so this is the pattern we have been looking at. and the san francisco mayor ed lee and others celebrating harbor day today. >> he tweeted this picture, where he helped to plant the tree, in honor of the nobel prize winner. they cleaned up the outer mission neighborhoods as well. and next in sports, stanford women facing cal. and apple lovers, you have to wait a bit for the newest ipad, what is causing the newest delay in the delivery ♪

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>> big fish to fry for the stanford women, all that is left is to see where the number is. closing in on the final days of the stanford career, facing cal today. the packed tournament, once again, a one-two punch, driving to the hoop for two of the 29, younger sister shanae contributes 17. have not attempted that all season, that was the first. what else should you expect? cal should be a tournament team but had the misfortunate of being in the finals. stanford's 28 straight win, 78 straight against the opponent, the cardinals is 30-31. and men's finals against arizona, trying to win as many as four games in as many days, scoring one field goal in the game's final nine minutes, by brown there, arizona within two of the final seconds, kyle fog,

won't go, buffaloes win, 53-51, earning an ncaa berth in their first year in the league. and the oakland a's may have a marquised player after all, making his debut, it was impressive. after walking in his first at bat, second, runner on board. rbi single off cincinnati starter cuedo. off the reds, jeff francis, this is what you call turning on a pitch. officially two for two in his spring debut, with two rbi's. a's win 6-1, as colon allows just a single run. giants, half the team playing the brewers in scottsdale, sandoval with a blast over the right field, homer and a double in the giant's eight run third inning to put the game away,

joseph hitting a pair of homers, zito, three shut out inches as the giants roll, 13- 3, and giants lose to tempe, 9- 5, sharks trying to right the ship in phoenix, trailing 1-0, in the second. we'll have it all tonight on  sports wrap, see you then. >> coming up tonight on the 10:00 news, we're following the fallout from the berkeley police chief's demand of an oakland reporter. we talked to him about what he had to say and what led him to send a sergeant to the reporter's house in the middle of the night to request changes to an article. and thank you for joining us, we'll see you next time. >> we continue with 10:00 news here on ktvu. remember we're here for you at ktvu.com and mobile ktvu. we'll see you back here tonight at 10:00